Evangelize or Avoid

Proverbs 2:11-15

11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,

12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

One of the first warnings given in Proverbs was to beware of those who are destructive and self destructive. Here we are assured that a part of wisdom is the ability to discern how to walk correctly. Verses like this are challenging when we look at the Great Commission that calls us to go out into the world. It is discretion that helps us to comfort the lost, but avoid being corrupted by those who reject the truth.